Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy (1994)
Tracklist front / back album covers
1. "Wrong Side of the Street" 5:20
2. "Best of Friends" 3:09
3. "Crescendo" 3:40
4. "Cry Yourself to Sleep" 2:30
5. "Little Miss Understood" 4:44
6. "Escape" 4:21
7. "Country Girl, City Boy" 2:43
8. "Summer’s in the Air" 2:33
9. "Days of the Knights" 3:16
10. "Not Over You" 3:37
11. "Night on the Town" 2:45
12. "A-losin’ You" 3:47
13. "Midnight Train" 2:50
14. "Pools of Sorrow" 1:57
Arjen Anthony Lucassen Band Members / Musicians
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - lead and backing vocals, guitars, banjo, mandolin, lute, keyboards and drum programming
Peter Vink - bass
Cleem Determeijer - keyboards
Debbie Schreuder - backing vocals
Mirjam van Doorn - backing vocals
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - producing and mixing
Oscar Holleman - assistant producing, engineering and mixing
Mario Schulz - engineering and mixing
Peter Brussée - Mastering
Niels van Iperen - Photography
Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy is the debut solo album of Dutch composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen, released under the name Anthony. He sang leading vocals and played most of the instruments himself. However unlike most of his future works Lucassen doesn't play bass, with Peter Vink (future member of Lucassen's band Star One and future contributor of Lucassen's project Ayreon) playing all bass.
The name of the album comes from the song "Across the Universe" (by The Beatles), one of Lucassen's favorite songs. Even though the album spawned three singles with radio spots, it flopped commercially.
